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That's as clear an explanation of the "whys" of the general dislike of
Spitzer in the financial areas, cpklapper, as I think can be made. And, judging from some of the things I've read and heard, the general disrespect and dislike was warranted...
posted by
saul_relative
on March 24, 2008 at 3:56 PM
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Re: Amazing how so many are looking at it that way now, cpklapper, whereas
I didn't hate the man. I just never respected him. He treated matters in the financial area, that were best handled with improved regulations or software, in a hostile, scapegoating, criminalizing manner. People were jailed, their lives ruined, for doing their job, making money for their company or their clients by exploiting market inefficiencies. Consequently, he was universally loathed by the traders, regardless of whether he persecuted -- I mean, prosecuted -- them and regardless of their political affiliation. Hence the celebration on the Street at his demise. And he was universally despised among those of us -- myself included -- who were trying to correct these inefficiencies through financial systems which work best when dealing with predictable data relationships but are not able to make near-term predictions which account for the haphazard prosecutions of a witch-hunting demagogue.
Carl Peter
posted by
cpklapper
on March 24, 2008 at 8:40 AM
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Indeed, Azur. How many times have we seen these things unfold?
posted by
saul_relative
on March 22, 2008 at 1:36 PM
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Yes power and all it means makes people act strangely
posted by
Azur
on March 22, 2008 at 9:30 AM
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Amazing how so many are looking at it that way now, cpklapper, whereas
before this went down, the only people hating Spitzer were those he put behind bars and die-hard Republicans (he was elected with a 70% vote).
posted by
saul_relative
on March 19, 2008 at 7:19 AM
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He welched or the public outcry against his proposal caused him to
reconsider, Naut? Besides, illegal aliens should get their licenses the old fashioned way -- forge them. And Canadians should be issued an American driver's license simply because they have such a cool flag...
posted by
saul_relative
on March 19, 2008 at 7:17 AM
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Elliot is a spoiled brat, as well as a pompous, self-righteous bully
who has just signed his daddy's money over to his soon-to-be ex-wife.
He should never have been governor.
posted by
cpklapper
on March 15, 2008 at 7:18 PM
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Serves Spitzer right, Saul...
He had promised me a NY State driver's license, and then welched on the deal...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 15, 2008 at 4:32 AM
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What's to understand, Samantha? Everything is leverage and keeping
score. Otherwise, we wouldn't need numbers...
posted by
saul_relative
on March 15, 2008 at 12:44 AM
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I just don't understand people
posted by
Samantha39
on March 14, 2008 at 8:16 AM
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Interesting take you have on the wife. Who knows what really goes on between the two of them?
posted by
TAPS.
on March 13, 2008 at 9:11 PM
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Then you didn't see the Harvard-trained professional lawyer that Mrs.
Spitzer actually is, Troosha. In fact, Mrs. Spitzer was one of the few who urged Spitzer to refuse to resign. Unlike Congressman Vitters' (of Louisiana) wife, who kept glancing aside and allowing a tic to pull down one side of her mouth, Mrs. Spitzer was all professional. Unlike Larry Craig's wife, who looked composed and resigned, perhaps because she's been through the fire with her husband several times before. With her, I don't see the any of that. Eyes a little red-rimmed from crying, but not over her husband, but over the governor...
posted by
saul_relative
on March 13, 2008 at 7:29 AM
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Saul
What I saw in that d
eer-in-headlights look on Mrs. Spitzer's face was a woman who probably wanted to reach over and strangle her husband or better yet - take over the mic and say all the things she was thinking behind those somewhat glazed eyes. The poor woman....
posted by
Troosha
on March 12, 2008 at 2:17 PM
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